Islamabad:

The government has intensified the efforts at the political level to promote electric vehicles in the country as it offers a wide range of benefits across environmental, economic, public health and industrial development sectors.

This was led by Muhammad Saleem Shaikh, spokesman for the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination on Sunday in connection with the federal government’s new electric vehicle policy (NEVP), which was launched on Friday.

The policy aims to ensure a fair and inclusive transition to cleaner mobility, reduce the dependence on fossil fuels, stimulate local innovation and create new green jobs, he said.

“Pakistan’s government is increasing efforts to promote the adoption of electrical vehicles (EVs) as an important part of the country’s pure energy and climate insurance agenda. With the transport sector, an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and urban pollution noted the shift against EVS a significant step towards a sustainable, health, and the economic sustainable,” the official.

He also said that the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination (MOCC & EC)) has already confirmed its involvement in various forums to promote EVS in the country as a strategic priority in the country’s transition to a low-coal, climate resilient future as part of the global effort to cut heating and climate-altering of vehicles that are carboniboni, and achieving vehicles, and carboniboni, and achieving vehicles, and carboniboni, and achieving vehicles, and carboniboni, and achieving vehicles, and obtaining vehicles that are carboniboni, and achieving and achieving vehicles that are carboniboni, and achieving and achieving vehicle. Environmental science.

Saleem Shaikh said, “to recognize the transport sector as among the most important contributors to air pollution and climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions, the Ministry would now actively support all sorts of efforts for the implementation of the new electric vehicle policy 2025-2030 to operate the country against a cleaner, healthier and more sustainable mobility system.

Director General of the Ministry, Mohammad Asif Sahibzada, pointed out that the Ministry of Industries and Production, MOCC & EC and other important industrial and non-industrial stakeholders worked in close collaboration to implement the new policy.

He also said the policy would go a long way in bringing more and more e-Vehicles on the country’s roads as it imagines 30 percent of all new vehicles sold by 2030 to be electrically-inclusive two-wheeler, three wheels, buses and cars.

“This transition is not only important for tackling adverse effects of transport sector -related carbon emissions that contribute to climate change, but also crucial to ensuring a clean, efficient and inclusive transport future for all Pakistanis,” said Asif Sahibzada.

When he talked about the environmental and public health benefits, Sahibzada emphasized that EVs emit zero-point-pipe contaminants, which significantly reduces the city’s smog and climate warming emissions. This shift supports the country’s obligations under the Paris Agreement and its national climate change, he added.

“Cleaner air means fewer respiratory and heart -vessel diseases. With fewer emissions on the road, citizens – especially children and the elderly – will benefit from improved health results and reduced health costs,” he noted.

He also said that electric vehicles undoubtedly offer long-term savings due to lower fuel and maintenance costs. They reduce Pakistan’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, help stabilize the economy and protect against global energy price shocks, he added.

The ministry’s director of urban affairs and urban pollution experts, Muhammad Azeem Khoso said that cleaner air means fewer airway and heart -vessel diseases.